Summary: <p>In 1996, 16-year-old Almeer Nance was an accomplice in an armed robbery in Knoxville, Tennessee during which 20-year-old Robert Manning shot and killed a worker. Despite the fact that Nance didn’t commit the murder, he was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to a minimum of 51 years in prison under Tennessee’s strict mandatory minimum laws. The other accomplice in the case, a white woman, only spent one year in prison for her involvement in the robbery. </p> <p>For "<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2022/6/8/51-years-behind-bars">51 Years Behind Bars</a>," a new documentary from Al Jazeera English’s "Fault Lines," correspondent <a href="https://twitter.com/jduffyrice?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Josie Duffy Rice</a> and producer <a href="https://twitter.com/YoungRJeremy">Jeremy Young</a> interviewed Nance and other people connected to his case to learn more about the consequences of his lengthy sentence.</p> <p>The Takeaway spoke with Josie Duffy Rice about this reporting and how it coincides with recent developments in juvenile sentencing.</p>
